I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“In a mere twenty minutes, they'd blown past the desired point of meaningful-connection-through-shared-experience into the less appealing state of knowing-each-other-too-well.”
Source: A Visit From the Goon Squad
“in a middle of a room stands a suicide sniffing a Paper rose smiling to a self "somewhere it is Spring and sometimes people are in real:imagine somewhere real flowers,but I can't imagine real flowers for if I could,they would somehow not Be real" (so he smiles smiling)"but I will not everywhere be real to you in a moment" The is blond with small hands "& everything is easier than I had guessed everything would be;even remembering the way who looked at whom first,anyhow dancing”
Source: ViVa
“In A Midnight Carol Patricia Davis illuminates the dark and brilliant humanity of Charles Dickens -- the man who lived a rags-to-riches life more remarkable than any of his stories.”
“In a milieu of resignation, where the young men think of society as a closed room in which there are no values but the rejected rat race, ... it is extremely hard to aim at objective truth or world culture. One's own products are likely to be personal or parochial.”
“In a military operation, the command and control elements are a legitimate target.”
“In a militia, the character of the laborer, artificer, or tradesman, predominates over that of the soldier: in a standing army, that of the soldier predominates over every other character.”
Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations
“In a mind charged with an eager purpose and an unfinished vindictiveness, there is no room for new feelings.”
“In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.”
“In a minimal interior, what you don't do is as important as what you do.”
“In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot.”
Source: Guesses at Truth
“In a moderately well-off society, the people fear chaos more than they fear dictatorship.”
Source: The Fat Years
“In a modern democracy, not only can a libertarian be elitist; a libertarian has to be elitist. To be a libertarian in a modern democracy is to say that nearly 300 million Americans are wrong, and a handful of nay-sayers are right.”
“In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.”
“In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling.”
Source: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
“In a modern world, only BLIND enjoys the greatest of freedom”
“In a modern world where a majority of women say, 'I don't need you, I've got my money, I've got my stuff,' I say, 'I desperately need men.' My whole album is a tribute to men. It takes a man in me to tell you that I'm on my knees for men.”
“In a modern world, increasingly filled with pop culture fads and gimmicks, Lisa Morton reveals much of the underbelly history and unknown facts regarding the biggest pop culture event in history-Halloween. Her sheer delight and well-researched enthusiasm in tackling many of the unrecognized aspects of this monstrous topic makes one wonder what we don't know about everything else that should be as commonplace to our psyche as a bag of candy.”
“In a moment, at the very center of the swept and cleaned veranda, she had drawn two intersecting triangles, one upward- pointing and the other downward-pointing. In one, god's grace descended from heaven to earth; in the other, the soul ascended, aspiring toward god. Because of Sitamma's faultless eye, both met in perfect harmony.”
Source: Bhava
“In a moment comes either death or joyful victory.
[Lat., Horae
Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]”
“In a moment....
Everything can change”
Source: A Broken Woman: From a child that was loved dearly into a teen that has lost her strength
“In a moment everything could suddenly change, but God and His promises remain the same.”
Source: Full and Overflowing: Poems, Thoughts and Photographs Inspired by God's Creation
“In a moment he restrained himself so powerfully that the tempestuous heaving of his breast subsided, as turbulent and foaming waves yield to the sun's genial influence when the cloud has passed.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“In a moment he would call Tana and they would pour into themselves a gay and delicate poison which would restore them momentarily to the pleasurable excitement of childhood, when every face in a crowd had carried its suggestion of splendid and significant transactions taking place somewhere to some magnificent and illimitable purpose...Life was no more than this summer afternoon; a faint wind stirring the lace collar of Gloria's dress, the slow baking drowsiness of the veranda...Intolerably unmoved they all seemed, removed from any romantic imminency of action. Even Gloria's beauty needed wild emotions, needed poignancy, needed death...”
Source: The Beautiful and Damned
“In a moment I am everything, in a moment I am nothing.
In a moment I understand everything, in a moment I do not understand anything.
In a moment I am on cloud number 9, in a moment I am at ground zero.
In a moment I love, in a moment I hate.
In a moment I am a success, in a moment I am failure
In a moment I fight, in a moment I give up
In a moment I win; in a moment I lose and in moment I lose these moments to win more, to live for more and to love more.”
Source: Just the Way I Feel
“In a moment, I am going to ask you to put the blade through your hand. When I ask you to do that, I want you to remember where your bones are, where you veins are. I want you to stab through your hand doing the least damage possible.' His voice is lulling, hypnotic, but my heart speeds anyway.
Against my will, I aim the sharp point of the knife. I press is lightly against my skin. I am ready.
I hate him, but I am ready. I hate him, and I hate myself.
'Now,' he says, and the glamour releases me. I take a half step back. I am in control of myself again, still holding the knife.
...
My eyes on him, I slam the knife in to my hand. The pain is a wave that rises higher and higher but never crashes. I make a sound low in my throat. I may not deserve punishment for this, but I deserve punishment.
Dain's expression is odd, blank. He takes a step back from me, as though I am the one who did the shocking thing instead of merely doing what he ordered.”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“In a moment, I am going to ask you to put the blade through your hand. When I ask you to do that, I want you to remember where your bones are, where you veins are. I want you to stab through your hand doing the least damage possible.' His voice is lulling, hypnotic, but my heart speeds anyway.
Against my will, I aim the sharp point of the knife. I press it lightly against my skin. I am ready.
I hate him, but I am ready. I hate him, and I hate myself.
'Now,' he says, and the glamour releases me. I take a half step back. I am in control of myself again, still holding the knife.
...
My eyes on him, I slam the knife in to my hand. The pain is a wave that rises higher and higher but never crashes. I make a sound low in my throat. I may not deserve punishment for this, but I deserve punishment.
Dain's expression is odd, blank. He takes a step back from me, as though I am the one who did the shocking thing instead of merely doing what he ordered.”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“In a moment my hand was on the lever, and I had placed a month between myself and these monsters.”
“In a moment of crisis, of which there are all too many, Russian military planners may conclude that lacking a deterrent, the only hope of survival is a first strike - which means the end for all of us.”
“In a moment of danger, call on the Divine Being God for help.”
“In a moment of darkness, do not discouraged.”
“In a moment of desperation, Jesus could have spoken new revelations or said nothing, but He chose the cling to the written Word as His sword in the battle. We cannot live on bread—natural means—alone. We cannot rely solely on medication or any other means that has been provided for us in the wilderness, but only by the Word of God. Jesus knew this and He lived this. So for us, what does that look like? It means getting up and opening up the Bible and reading even when we don’t feel like it or even when only a few words is the best we can do, because the Word really does transform our thinking and become our weapon in war.”
Source: Joyful Sorrow: Breaking Through the Darkness of Mental Illness
“In a moment of enlightenment, I no longer perceived myself as being unconditionally delivered over to my fate, but rather called to acknowledge my own authorship. In other words, the tragic events that had taken place in the past were not things that had simply happened to me. Rather, they were actions that
were at least partially initiated by me. That day, I was filled with faith that new possibilities of growth and change were waiting just around the corner.”
Source: Know Thyself: An Autobiographical Manual for Designing a Successful Life
“In a moment of grace, a man is change.”
“In a moment of grace, we can grasp eternity in the palm of our hand. This is the gift given to creative individuals who can identify with the mysteries of life through art.”
“In a moment of mouse madness, I had clicked on a hi-tech outfit that apparently could breathe, sweat and possibly even do the running for me, or that’s what I expected for the price.”
Source: A Dozen Second Chances
“In a moment of sheer terror, I realized I couldn't feel my brain. It was there just a minute ago. Maybe I really was dead. "Do I look dead to you?”
Source: Third Grave Dead Ahead
“In a moment of stress, reality roars. Some are overwhelmed by the rush of events. Others arrive at a place of sudden clarity unfiltered by thought. Excitement burns away the inessential. Time seems to slow. The warrior flows calmly through his experience, his thoughts bounding ahead of the tumult.”
“In a moment of unusual clarity, we eliminate suffering by not wishing for a different life. When we affirm every manifold of our life, we begin to experience the first ray of personal illumination and commence trending on a road of living without regrets and remorse.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“In a moment someone will get up and turn on the light. Then the old folks will remember the children and they won’t talk anymore that day. And when light fills the room, the child is filled with darkness. He knows that every time this happens he’s moved just a little closer to that darkness outside. The darkness outside is what the old folks have been talking about. It’s what they’ve come from. It’s what they endure. The child knows that they won’t talk any more because if he knows too much about what’s happened to them, he’ll know too much too soon, about what’s going to happen to him.”
Source: Sonny's Blues
“In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.”
“In a moment the earth will cover us all. Then the earth too will change, and then further successive changes to infinity.
One reflecting on these waves of change and transformation, and the speed of their flow, will hold all mortal things in contempt.”
“In a moment, the world came to a stand still.”
“In a moment we lost our minds hereand lay our spirits down.Today we lived a thousand years,all we have is now.”
“In a moment when criticism shows a singular dearth of direction every man has to be a law unto himself in matters of theatre, writing, and painting. While the American Mercury and the new Ford continue to spread a thin varnish of Ritz over the whole United States there is a certain virtue in being unfashionable.”
Source: John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose
“In a moment when the outcome of our revolution was most in doubt the father of our nation ordered these words be read to the people. Let it be told to the future world that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country alarmed at one common danger came forth to meet it.”
“In a moment when young black voters were key to the election and the reelection of a black president, when the Department of Justice has been led these years by the first two African-American attorneys general, when many big cities boast African-American league prosecutors and police chiefs and mayors, even in this moment, why is it that it still feels to so many young people that there is more power for change on the court than in the courts?”
“In a moment, everything can change and in a moment, you can change everything.”
“In a moment, we hope to see the pole vault over the satellite.”
“In a moment, when I'm ready, I will turn off this computer and that will be it. This letter will be finished. A part of me doesn't want to stop writing to you, but I need to. For both of us.”
Source: Stolen
“In a monastic setting, if someone doesn't want to obey the rules and just wants to live the way they've always lived as a lay person, then why did they become ordained? They have no sense that they have to give something up to gain so much.”